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Henry Kissinger has been trying to persuade the Bush Administration to work out a new agreement with the Kremlin. The Soviet Union would commit itself to tolerate political and economic pluralism in Eastern Europe in exchange for Western guarantees of Soviet military security. The notion seems to be that Moscow might be more likely to allow Poland, Hungary and other countries to evolve toward democracy and free markets, perhaps even to associate themselves with the European Community, if NATO promises not to lure them out of the Warsaw Pact and perhaps desists from covert intelligence operations behind the Iron Curtain...
Many of Hoffman's friends and admirers reacted with shock this week to a coroner's report which determined that the 52 year-old activist committed suicide last week. "Abbie was just too full of life to commit suicide. It just wasn't his style," one friend said Wednesday. "If Abbie were going to kill himself, he would have called a press conference first...
...faced machine gun fire like a wall of death," Sullivan said. "If you listen to the government, you'd believe Colonel North went to work every day and decided what kind of crime to commit in which meeting...
...January, 1968, a faculty committee headed by Professor of Government James Q. Wilson found that the University community was rapidly displacing local residents, and recommended that Harvard commit itself to creating new housing and recruiting workers from nearby city neighborhoods. The report also called for the creation of a new vice president for external affairs to handle the University's dealings with the city...
...twice been convicted on federal charges of sports bribery. In 1974 Perry was convicted in connection with a major New York betting scandal at Roosevelt and Yonkers raceways. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $10,000. In 1984 Perry pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sports bribery as part of the notorious Boston College point-shaving scheme. At the trial, recalls Edward McDonald, head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn, N.Y. Perry was referred to as Richie ("the Fixer") Perry...